College Enrollment and Full Time Equivalency Search

About Searching

There is a time lag between when updates are received and when updates will
appear here, you are urged to contact the respective institutions for
verification if the timeliness of such data is critical to you.

General search help - Any field left blank will
be ignored when searching the database. Drop-down and list-box fields default to
"No Preference" unless you specifically change them. If you do
not put in any search criteria you will get back all records in the database.
The search is case-insensitive. For more advanced information, check out
the advanced topics below.

CIP Code - This field allows researchers to
search by Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) Code. This field is
compared to the left-most digits of the CIP code. EG: If you enter '12' into
this field, all CIP codes that start with '12' will be returned.

Degree level- You may limit your search to
just certain degree levels. The default value is "All" which means
that you want to see all programs regardless of their degree level. This list
allows you to select multiple degree types to search. To select more than one
degree level, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard while clicking on each
degree level.

Maximum items shown per page
- This is the number of found items shown on a page. Ten items is about the most
that can be seen on the screen at one time, but you may increase or decrease
this amount to suit your own viewing preferences.

OR criteria - When the Search button is
pressed the database will be searched looking for any record which contains the
Program name AND the School name AND the settings of the rest of the fields on
the form. If this checkbox is checked, the database will, instead, be searched
looking for any record which contains the Program name OR the School name OR any
of the settings of the rest of the fields on the form.

Program or Field of Study- The words in
this field will be searched for in the program name. If you know the exact
program name you are looking for you can enter it here in quotes like this:
"Entry Level Bookkeeping". If you are unsure of the program name try
entering a partial word related to what you are looking for. For instance, if
you were looking for Computer related programs you could try "comp".
This would return all programs with "comp" anywhere in their
name.

Record Types - One or more of
the listed record types can be selected for viewing. However, search totals will
only be shown for a limited subset of records to avoid misleading totals.

Within the database there are records showing full time and part time counts
for both undergraduates and post Baccalaureate students. Within the Connecticut
database there are also records which show totals for each of the four groups,
and one record (per school per year) which shows the total number of students.

The search results will not generate a total for any search which shows total
and detail records together. For instance, you can view the Grand Total alone
and the search results will show a total; but if you try to view the Grand Total
record with any other type of record, then the search page will not display a
totals line.

School or College Name - You may limit your
search to just specific colleges or universities. This list allows you to select
multiple colleges and/or universities to search. To select more than one
university or college, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard while clicking on
each college or university. This database only contains data on Connecticut
universities and colleges. This database includes information on those schools
which have closed, merged, or changed names. Merged schools show data under
their original names up to the date they merged, and under their new name after
the date of the merge. Schools which have changed names show data only under the
new name. Schools which did not report data or closed before data collection
started are not in the database.

Search - This button performs the search based on
the criteria specified.

Sort results by - This combobox allows
you to select how you want the results sorted. You may only select one field to
sort by. The default sort order is by the institution name.

Starting page - This field allows you to
select a different record to be shown first after hitting the Search button. You
might want to use this if your search results in many records and you'd like to
go right to the page that contains what you are looking for.

Town- You may limit your search to just specific
towns or regions of the state. This box allows you to select multiple towns
and/or regions to search. To select more than one region or town, hold down the
CTRL key on your keyboard while clicking on each town or region. The
default is ALL towns.

Tuition range- You may limit your search
to programs within a certain tuition range. If you leave the field blank it will
be ignored. The Low field lets you set a minimum tuition you are willing to pay
- most people are quite willing to pay nothing, so this field naturally defaults
to zero. The High field lets you set a maximum tuition you are willing to pay -
if left empty it assumes that you want to see even the most expensive programs.

Private Occupational School's may charge different tuitions according to the
program and even different tuitions for the same program when offered at night
or on weekends. The length of a Private Occupational School program can vary
widely.

It is important to note that Colleges charge a specific tuition per year
regardless of what program a student may attend at the institution. The
differences in quality, scope, and length between Private Occupational School
and collegiate programs do not allow for a proper tuition comparison. The
tuition displayed for a collegiate program is the yearly tuition as reported by
that college.

In addition, some institutions may not report tuition and this is noted by
the tuition field being left empty. Any program for which tuition is unknown
will be returned regardless of the contents of the tuition low and high fields.

Abbreviations - This search engine does not understand abbreviations.
Using "UCONN" instead of "UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT" will
not work. Other abbreviations such as HTFD (Hartford) or W. (west) are unlikely
to work as well. If a search does not provide the results you expected, please
check to make sure you are not using abbreviations. Partial words will work -
HART will find Hartford, WES will find west, UNI will find University.

Boolean Operators - This search engine incorporates standard boolean
operators (AND, OR, NOT) and allows grouping by parentheses and quoted text. If
the search text does not contain the word AND or OR, each word is treated as an
AND condition. Any single quotes surrounded by text are replaced with single
character wildcards to avoid problems.

This search engine can be overwhelmed by large boolean expressions. If that
happens you'll get an error. Try using a smaller set of criteria in this case.

Capitalization - This search engine ignores
capitalization.

Plurals - Plural (eg Nurses) and possessive (eg Nurse's)
forms of a word should not be used to search this database. While such
things will work, they do not return a list of all items which contain the
non-plural/non-possessive form of the word being searched for. In
addition, this search engine treats plurals and possessives identically even
though the database may contain plural and possessive words.

Search Speed - You can make your searches run faster by
not using boolean expressions, and by selecting ALL for the various limiting
categories.

Wildcards - You can use wildcards in your searches. To
match any amount of text or numbers use the percent % symbol. To match a single
character use the underscore _ symbol.